Prompt 8- Early.
03:00
Everyone should be asleep but River's eyes won't close and her brain just won't switch off. She tries counting the tiles on her ceiling and then naming them.
03:02
Steve is cracked twice and she should really see Mal about Frederica being damp and possibly on the verge of some sort of infection.
03:04
If you calculate the volume of air in the room multiplied by the size of the average respiratory system and capacity for oxygen in the lungs, she would have to breathe rapidly for six weeks, two days and nine hours to use up all the breathable atmosphere on the ship on her own should the life support fail again. It would be rapidly diminished with each body and the bulk of the person. Really their best chance for survival would be to kill Jayne.
03:15
There are two hundred and fifty five ways of killing someone with the instruments she has in her room and Simon took out all the sharp things. The most embarrassing would be to dissect the toy rabbit Kaylee brought her and use to stuffing to suffocate someone. How humiliating to have: 'Death by Rabbit guts' as cause of death.
03:36
Captain Mal had 142 enemies and would likely be shot a further 36 times in the next ten years. Probably should tell Simon to buy more bandages.
03:44
River gets up and pulls on her nightdress. There is no way she can go back to sleep now with thoughts of the Captain using rabbit guts as protective clothing.
03:52
Kaylee snores louder than Simon and Simon snores louder than Captain Mal. Zoë cries in her sleep and Jayne purrs like a cat.
04:03
River makes a mental note to kick Simon for leaving out his doctor's bag as she cradles her bruised toes.
04:39
It is impossible to make pancakes from protein blocks and the fire alarm needs new batteries.
05:11
Playing with the dinosaurs isn't as fun without Wash to make the voices.
05:19
There will be confusion at breakfast when they see that she has rearranged the tinned foods by use-by-date and they realise that the peaches should have been eaten last year.
05:32
She draws pictures of the whole crew and starts to decorate the dining area but Mal's nose always comes out longer than it really is and she can't fit all Kaylee's teeth in her mouth.
06:08
The Captain dreams of blood and death, Jayne dreams of blood and sex, Zoë dreams of blood and Reavers, Kaylee dreams of sunshine and kisses and no one should ever dream-walk into their brother's head.
06:20
The cargo bay is lovely and cool and there is plenty of room for dancing.
07:12
Exhausted River decides to curl up on Jayne's weight bench for a moment to rest.
07:30
River opens her eyes briefly as she is being carried down the hallway.
"Yer really gotta start eatin' more, girl, don't weigh more'n a feather."
River just smiles and falls back to sleep, finally.